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NEW YORK -- Courtney Love was arrested Thursday on misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and third-degree assault for allegedly throwing a microphone stand and striking a man in the head at a New York City nightclub.

The incident occurred after Love, 39, courted trouble with the Federal Communication Commission by repeatedly baring her breasts during a taping of CBS' "Late Show" with David Letterman on Wednesday.

Police allege that Love hit Gregory Burgett, 24, of London, Ky., in the head with a microphone stand as he watched the beginning of her show at the East Village club Plaid's weekly "Kitten Club" rock 'n' roll night.

The club's publicist, Claire O'Connor, said that the microphone stand somehow "ended up in the crowd," and that Love "didn't intend to hit this guy."

"She went back to her dressing room, completely unaware that there was an incident and she was about to be arrested," O'Connor said.

Love was arrested after Burgett needed three staples in his head and said he wanted to press charges, police and witnesses said.

Donald Trump wants to trademark 'You're fired'

You're cheeky!

New York developer Donald Trump, who is apparently trying to corner the market on chutzpah as well as real estate, is seeking to trademark an unfortunately common expression: "You're fired."

As millions of NBC television viewers know, Trump has been saying those two words a lot lately. The payoff of his reality-based show "The Apprentice" comes when Trump narrows his gaze, jabs his finger and barks, "You're fired" to one of the young applicants competing for a job at his company.

Trump's application to the federal Patent and Trademark Office says he wants to control use of the expression with "games and playthings" and "casino services."

That suggests that Trump's casinos soon will feature "You're fired" slot machines or other games that incorporate the humiliating phrase, said Los Angeles intellectual property attorney Christopher Chaudoir of Pillsbury Winthorp. "He probably wants to keep another casino from using a similar game," Chaudoir said.

Previous efforts to lock up use of everyday expressions have had mixed results. Fox News Network trademarked the phrase "fair and balanced" in 1998 to describe its news coverage but failed to prohibit satirist Al Franken from using the words on the cover of his 2003 book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."

During the past two years, U.S. officials were flooded with applications to trademark the expressions "Let's Roll" and "Shock and Awe" in connection with products ranging from condoms to mud flaps.

Tammy Faye tells TV audience she has cancer

LOS ANGELES -- Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner announced Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live" that she has inoperable lung cancer.

Messner, 62, told one caller that she "believes in miracles" and told another that she is considering holistic medicine in addition to chemotherapy to treat her cancer.

The former Tammy Faye Bakker divorced televangelist Jim Bakker in 1992 while he was serving a sentence for financial fraud.

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